Old Hickory Author:John Frost Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VI. IACKSON BECOMES A SENATOR LN THE U. S. CONGRESS.?KB SIGNS. IS APPOINTED JUDGE vF THE SUPREME COURT ; FTER his marriage, Jackson applied himself... more » assiduously to his profession. But the war which he had waged against the debtors, on his first settling in Nashville, had created many and bitter enemies, who now sought every means to disgrace and annoy him. Personal quarrels were sought with him, and " bullies," a species of characters who were at this time found in great numbers in the Western settlements., werf employed to attack him. While he was attending a court in Sumner CouLtj one of these, instigated no doubt by some enemy o Jackson, approached him in the street, and rudeh assaulted him. Jackson pushed the man off to a dis tance, and laying hold of a slab, thrust him in the oreast so forcibly that the bully was brought to theground. Recovering, however, he again prepared "or fight. The crowd here interfered to prevent further conflict, but at the entreaty of Jackson again stood aside. Poising his slab, with a firm step and a steady eye, Jackson advanced upon his antagonist, who, at his approach, dropped his weapon, jumped the fence and took to the woods. The result of a few encounters such as this, freed him ever after from all such annoyances. In 1795, the people of Tennessee took measures for forming a state government, with a view to admission into the Union. Jackson, without offering himself as a candidate, was elected as one of the members of the Convention. In June, 1796, Tennessee became by an act of Congress, one of the United States, and on the same footing with the others. It was only entitled to one representative in Congress, and General Jackson was elected as that representative without having been a candidate. He took his seat in the Hous...« less